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(No Model.)

J. ENDERS.

OARRIAGE SPRING.

Patented Oct. 3, 1882.

INVENTOR. XMW $419M WITNES SE3 'tlnrreo STATES Parent rrrce.

JOSEPH ENDERS, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO STEPHENSEVERSON, OF SAME PLACE.

CARRIAGE-SPRING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No..265,397, dated October3, 1882.

Application filed July 3, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH ENDERS, a citizenof the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jeffersonand State of Kentucky, haveinvented acertain new and usefullmprovementinCarriage or Buggy Springs; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operationof the same, reference I 0 being bad to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification.

This my invention relates to a' certain new and useful improvement incarriage or buggy springs, consisting, first, in a frame formed by theparallel side bars and head-blocks, clipped together at thecorners, withflat springs clipped at one end to the under side of the side bars closeup to the head-blocks, while the other ends are hinged to round bars ofiron extendin across the entire frame, with nuts on the ends to holdthem in place. These bars have flanges or lugs formed on the side, uponwhich the central or halfelliptic springs rest, and to which they aresecured firmly in such a position as to receive the bar or block uponwhich the body rests, and by which it is secured to the springs, and bymeans of the connection of the elliptic springs with the short springsbelow the whole is rendered more elastic, and go as the uppersprin gbecomes elongated or more expanded by the weight the short springs underthe side bars become contracted or shortened at the same time, therebymaking up the difference between the contraction of the one 5 and theexpansion of the other, and thereby relieving all the parts fromunnecessary strain from expansion and contraction when in use.

The objectof this-my invention is to provide a series of springsespecially adapted to carriages or buggies, so arranged as to be moreconvenient, durable, and more elastic and easy for the occupants, andnot liable to wreck or break by the uneven or irregular expansion orcontraction of the several springs. I attain 4 5 the above object by themechanism illustrated in the drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is aperspective view of the under side of the frame, showing the arrangementof I the springs thereon. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the top of theframe, showing the connection of the springs with the cross-bars.

Similar letters refer to corresponding parts of the drawings.

This my invention will be more fully illustrated in detail in thedrawings, in which- A represents the side bars of the frame, and O isthe head-blocks or cross-bars, all of which are clipped together at thecorners, and made in form as shown in the drawings.

F F are the short flat springs, one end of which is secured to the underside of the side bars by the clips G G, while the other is hinged to thecross-bars E, which are made of round iron, extending across the entireframe, with nuts on the ends to hold them in place. These last-namedshort springs, F, may be replaced by a clevis hinged to the under sideof the side bars, instead of the springs, but connected in the samemanner.

I) D are lugs on the side of the bars E, on which the springs 13 13rest, and to which they are secured. These springs B are half-ellipticin form, and provided with bars H on the top for the body to rest upon,and to which it is secured, and as the weightexpands the springs B thesame weight curves and shortens the springs F F, thereby relieving allparts from tion of the springs. Therefore hat I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, in carriage or buggy springs, 1s-

The combination of the short springs F F and elliptic springs B B,connected by means of the cross-bars E E, to which the elliptic springsB B are rigidly secured by the lugs D D at the sides, thereby causing aregular elastic vertical motion to be given the body without strainingthe side bars, A, substantiall y as herein described, and for thepurpose set forth.

JOSEPH ENDERS.

Witnesses:

G. HEWITT, FRANK PARDON.

unnecessary strain from expansion or contrac-

